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Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing onMiddle English literature. A student guide to the most influential critical writing onMiddle English literature. Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Guides to Criticism
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This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. Brings together in one...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Reading the Novel in English 1950–2000; “This is an excellent introductory study. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer’s close reading is exemplary. His interpretations cast fresh light on some novels...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Reading the Novel
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The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors. Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever possible,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Annotated Anthologies
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A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. Brings together original essays written by prominent specialists in the field in honour of Bruce Mitchell, the eminent Oxford scholar and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century. Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Features...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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